Quotation from: Villette

Written by: Charlotte Bronte


"Will you go? I want to shut the door.... Ginevra, people may tell you
you are very handsome in that ball-attire; but, in _my_ eyes, you
will never look so pretty as you did in the gingham gown and plain
straw bonnet you wore when I first saw you."


"Other people have not your puritanical tastes," was her angry reply.
"And, besides, I see no right you have to sermonize me."


"Certainly! I have little right; and you, perhaps, have still less to
come flourishing and fluttering into my chamber--a mere jay in
borrowed plumes. I have not the least respect for your feathers, Miss
Fanshawe; and especially the peacock's eyes you call a _parure_:
very pretty things, if you had bought them with money which was your
own, and which you could well spare, but not at all pretty under
present circumstances."

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